JUST UNDERSTAND PROGRESSIVISM AS NEUROTICISM AND SELF-LOATHING PROJECTED OUTWARD, AND IT ALL BECOMES CLEAR: Bizarre Documentary Showcases Affluent White Women Paying To Be Called Racists.

HEH: Woman Who Wrecked Atlanta Has Thoughts on GOP Commitment to America.

COLD WAR II: ‘Savior of Tehran’: China Props Up Tehran With Major Oil Purchases.

China “has proven to be the savior of Tehran by continuing to import millions of barrels of oil every single day,” according to newly released figures calculated by United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), an advocacy group that tracks Iran’s illicit oil trade. “Chinese imports have likely even exceeded the purchases made when the trade was not subject to U.S. sanctions.” Iran’s oil trade is heavily sanctioned by the United States as part of measures aimed at curbing the hardline regime’s revenue sources.

“It is widely acknowledged,” according to UANI, “that China is principally responsible for keeping the Iranian regime in business through oil purchases that have totaled $38 billion since President Joe Biden assumed office.” Entities found to be complicit in violating sanctions can face huge fines and be iced out of the U.S. financial system.

While the Biden administration has not nixed U.S. sanctions on Iran’s lucrative oil trade, it has eased its enforcement of these measures, according to experts tracking the situation. This has allowed Iran to export around 1,000,000 barrels of crude per day to Beijing amid a global supply crisis and enriched Tehran’s hardline regime at a time when its grip on power is more threatened than ever.

This really is Obama’s third term.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Fascist Creep Factor for Biden’s DOJ Gets Worse Every Day. “We’re almost in ‘stick a fork in it, it’s done’ territory when it comes to justice.”

COLORADO: Aurora passes law to send shoplifters to jail.

Larger businesses have lost up to a million dollars according to the Havana Business Improvement District.

Davenport works with 70 small businesses in his Antique Mall.

“It’s just hard there’s no solution. Everybody’s hands are tied so we need to come up with something,” Davenport said.

At-large Council Member Danielle Jurinsky is helping spearhead the campaign to give shoplifters jail time.

“I hope that we send a message that if you come to Aurora and you steal anything you will go to jail,” Jurinsky said.

More like this, please.

BIDEN SHOULD TAKE HIM UP ON THIS, BUT WON’T: Trump Offers Biden Administration His Services to Help Stave Off World War III.

LIBSOFTIKTOK: Twitter has suspended me again for ‘hateful conduct.’ “Twitter claims I have violated their ‘hateful conduct policy,’ but like my last suspension, they have provided no explanation as to how I violated this policy. Was it hateful to expose an all-ages drag show where a stripper performed in front of children? Was it hateful to expose a drag queen who allowed a small child to repeatedly rub their crotch?”

PJ MEDIA VIP ROUNDUP: Don’t forget that VODKAPUNDIT promo code if you’ve been thinking of joining us.

Kevin Downey Jr: A Whole Generation of Kids Is Being Destroyed by the Left. “Turning a blind eye to crimes committed by young people is ‘woke AF’ and just as cruel. Yes, crime destabilizes society. The pinkos need chaos to successfully bring Marxism to our country, and these kids are perfect pawns.”

Rick Moran: No Matter What Happens in Iran, the Women Have Already Won. “More than 40 years of rule by the Islamists have failed to ‘de-westernize’ Iran.”

Yours Truly: Ukraine on the Verge of Another Massive Battlefield Victory. “The Russian army’s position in its ‘annexed’ region could come unglued as Ukrainian forces surround the lynchpin of Moscow’s defenses there.”

HE’S COMPETENT, FOR STARTERS: The Left Is Hoping DeSantis Botches Hurricane Response. Here’s What They Didn’t Count On.

FASTER, PLEASE: ‘Historic moment’ in race to beat Alzheimer’s: Experimental brain plaque-busting drug ‘significantly slows decline of patients battling early stages of the disease.’

YES: These Detransitioners Have A Message For Distressed Girls: Mangling Your Body Is A Sickness, Not A Cure.

MEET THE NEW GOP: Younger, More Female, More Hispanic (and More Attractive, if You’ll Pardon Me). “The New GOP has changed a lot in a short time, moving quickly away from its old image of grumpy old men harrumphing over cigars during Ugly Pants Night at the local Chamber of Commerce.”

HE’S FLAILING: Beto Turns On Biden, Blames Prez For Latino Voters’ Rightward Shift.

BIDEN’S RETURN TO DECENCY: Biden Only Spoke to DeSantis After the Governor Called Out the President’s Pettiness.

BATTLESWARM BLOG: Did I Get a DDos Attack From Russia? “At some point during yesterday’s diagnosis of my ongoing technical difficulties, the BlueHost technician asked if 185.122.204.37 was my IP, because there were something like 30,000+ hits from it that day. I verified it wasn’t mine, and that it wasn’t Instapundit (which had linked me that day), and did a reverse DNS lookup, which brought up the following: ‘185.122.204.37 appears to be located in Moscow, Russia and allocated to Chang Way Technologies Co. Limited.'”

ANOTHER ONE? Joe and Hunter’s Fang Fang Problem.

FALLOUT: Putin’s Mobilization Hits Russia’s Economy in Its Weak Spots.

Vladimir Putin’s decision to call up 300,000 men to fight in his invasion of Ukraine is hitting two of the battered Russian economy’s weak spots.

The order takes about one in a hundred of the country’s active workers from their jobs to send to the front when record-low unemployment – combined with the exodus of Russians fleeing the country to avoid the mobilization – means there are few candidates to replace them. And it’s likely to batter Russians’ already-fragile finances, leaving some draftees’ families short of cash.

Plus: Hidden paragraph of Putin’s decree allows 1 million Russians to be mobilised.

CHANGE: Globalist Agenda Wacked by Italian Mother’s ‘God, Country, and Family’ Campaign.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY (EURO EDITION): You really don’t understand how bad it could get in Europe this year. “As bad as it is now, these might still be the good days for Europe. With winter and higher gas demand on the way, experts told Fortune that Europe’s energy market has never been more vulnerable. Even the slightest uptick in energy demand anywhere in the world could push entire sectors of Europe’s manufacturing industry to shut down entirely, devastating European economies with a wave of unemployment, high prices, and in all likelihood public unrest and divisions between European nations.”

OK, GROOMERS: The Arizona Department of Education Has a Chatroom For LGBTQ Students to Access Without Parental Permission.

OH: China Brings Home 162 Nuclear Scientists (Read: Spies) From New Mexico. “As Russia threatens to use nukes against the U.S. ‘if the West attacks Russian territory,’ a disturbing story has come out in recent days detailing the recruitment of over a hundred Chinese scientists who had worked at the nuclear research lab at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to bring whatever they may have learned back to China.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: DeSantis Looks More Presidential Than Biden in Lead-Up to Hurricane. “It’s classless and unprofessional for the White House to ignore DeSantis during a time like this. Calling up the three mayors who are in harm’s way while ignoring DeSantis is just childish grade school posturing though (Can you tell him I’m ignoring him…). There’s a time and a place for everything, and the Biden administration always manages to hit the wrong note.”

BIDENFLATION: FedEx Announces Biggest Ever General Rate Increase.

“Effective January 2, 2023, FedEx Express, FedEx Ground, and FedEx Home Delivery rates will increase by an average of 6.9 percent,” the company said in a news release on Sept. 22. The general rate increase of 6.9 percent is the largest annual hike in the company’s history, according to FreightWaves.

In addition, the firm will raise FedEx Freight rates “by an average of 6.9–7.9 percent dependent on the customer’s transportation rate scale.” This is the first time in eight years that FedEx has raised freight rates by more than 4.9 percent.

According to the company’s latest rate list, the cost of overnight delivery for a one-pound envelope by 8 a.m. the next day will rise by 4.4 percent, to $68.04. The cost of two-day delivery by 10:30 a.m. will be $25.37, an increase of 7.9 percent.

The rate-hike decision was announced as part of the company’s fiscal 2023 first-quarter earnings report. FedEx’s net income for the three months ended Aug. 31 was at $875 million, a decline of more than 20 percent from the $1.1 billion in net income earned during the year-ago period.

During the earnings call, CEO Raj Subramaniam blamed rising prices for the poor performance.

Meanwhile: Biden flirts with inflation denial ahead of midterm elections.

TO BE FAIR, MOST OF WHAT HE SAYS MAKES NO SENSE: John Fetterman Claims He Made Communities Safer, but We Have the Receipts.

RATINGS: Former Fox News host bombs in CNN debut.

A new show hosted by former Fox News host and current CNN host Chris Wallace fell flat in its debut.

Nielsen Media Research tracked ratings for Wallace’s show, Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace, which debuted on CNN Sunday. The ratings show that there were 401,000 viewers, down 29% from the average, and 44,000 among those aged 25 to 54, down 64% from the average.

Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy, a long-standing Fox News program that aired at the same time as Wallace’s, received 1.3 million viewers and 78,000 viewers aged 25 to 54.

Whatever goodwill Wallace generated at Fox is long gone.